In Q4 2025, an estimated 135 new funds were launched, led by Equity Hedge (65) and Macro (35) funds - representing a trend shift from the prior quarter when Relative Value Arbitrage led new launches ...

German Bunds - the traditional safe haven - were down 2.5%. US Treasuries fell 2.5%. Even gold, the ultimate refuge, gave back 15%. Ironshield Capital's High Yield Alpha Fund UCITS was up ...

Every con needs two things: a con artist, and an audience willing to be conned. The second half is harder to write about, because it requires asking uncomfortable questions not about Ritossa, but ...

In what may be the most timely Opalesque Exclusive of the year, Munich-based quant manager Amfileon is profiled this week as markets experience precisely the kind of shock its strategy was built to ...

Tweet; Print; Track Keywords; What would happen if the drawdown experienced in the first half of March 2026 turned into a prolonged sell off for the hedge fund industry. Would it ...

In normal times, war, oil shocks, and market volatility would send gold prices soaring. Yet in recent weeks, gold has shed 14% of its value, while silver has fallen nearly twice as hard, dropping 28%.

Most alternative strategies promise uncorrelated returns - and then quietly correlate when markets need them most. Amfileon AG, a Munich-based quantitative investment manager, was designed from the ...

How a specialist manager built a 14-year track record delivering +143% returns in the fastest-growing economies on earth - markets that global capital systematically refuses to look at. Part 1 of 2.

Balerion Space Ventures has led a $500 million funding round for Vast, a company which develops private space stations. The company says its strategic roadmap includes low-earth orbit space stations, ...

Summary: The SEC and CFTC have jointly issued a landmark 68-page interpretation establishing a formal token taxonomy, declaring that most crypto assets fall outside federal securities law and ...

The chairs of the SEC and CFTC* vowed at a joint roundtable in September 2025 to end the regulatory "turf war" between the two agencies. "What matters is building a framework where our agencies ...

The SEC-CFTC Harmonization Initiative's Memorandum of Understanding, published last week, reflects both agencies' commitment to closer coordination.